{"id":9783,"date":"2016-01-08T09:00:07","date_gmt":"2016-01-08T09:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=9783"},"modified":"2020-12-09T15:08:31","modified_gmt":"2020-12-09T15:08:31","slug":"mike-farren","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/mike-farren\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Farren"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Electricity and void<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We are mostly electricity and void<br \/>\nand, mostly, it suits me to believe<br \/>\nmatter illusion, time a mystery.<br \/>\nBut on this warm-cold night in early spring<br \/>\nyou lay your material, electrical void<br \/>\nnext to mine, and nothing is important<br \/>\nbut the solid and the here \u2013 unless<br \/>\nit\u2019s the memory of the breeze that lapped<br \/>\nat our mezzogiorno sweat,<br \/>\nbefore standing at the window,<br \/>\nlooking down on the whitewashed wall,<br \/>\nteeming with insect life,<br \/>\nready to sing like angels.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mike Farren<\/strong> is a freelance writer and ex-IT consultant. He lives near Bradford and has had poems published on the Leads to Leeds website (<a href=\"http:\/\/leadstoleeds.com\/#poems\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/leadstoleeds.com\/#poems)<\/a> and in anthologies from Beehive Poets, most recently alongside Ian Duhig, Steve Ely and others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Electricity and void We are mostly electricity and void and, mostly, it suits me to believe matter illusion, time a mystery. But on this warm-cold night in early spring you lay your material, electrical void next to mine, and nothing is important but the solid and the here \u2013 unless it\u2019s the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[135,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2016-poetry-picks","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9783"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23817,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9783\/revisions\/23817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}